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Update 4 GE Week of Action April 1- 10
From: Resistance is Fertile
<info@resistanceisfertile.com>
Subject: [RiF] Update 4 GE Week of Action April 1- 10
Dear Campaigners from all over the world !
Here's the fourth update of RESISTANCE IS FERTILE
ACTION WEEK AGAINST GENETIC ENGINEERING
APRIL 1-10.
This will be a week of protest, campaigning and positive action
around the world.
We need you to make it a success! Read on...
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please pass this message on to those who will be interested.
If you want to subscribe, send us an email and tell us if you have
any ideas or know people / organisations we should contact.
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CONTENTS OF THIS UPDATE:
Where we are now...
Press
Action Roundup
National / Regional Co-ordinators
Flier Text
Next update
Contact Details of resistance is fertile
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WHERE WE ARE NOW...
All much the same as last week. As always it is really important that
many more people get involved and start to plan actions (and don't
forget to tell us about them!) And that's where we need help.
We the international co-ordination team (Etienne, Becky, Rhia and maxE)
have our hands full with dealing with enquiries and helping groups with
ideas and presswork etc. What we really need is for YOU to help with
networking - pass on this update and fliers / posters to groups and
people
who may be interested.
So here's a list of things we would really appreciate help with:
contacting people and getting them interested
Translations
posters / fliers
putting together resources and info for the website
dealing with the press in your region
planning and doing actions!
this week can only be as strong as the people doing it - and that's
all of us!
If you want any help at all, or can help us, whether ideas for
actions or help with materials for leaflets, just talk to us. Our
contact details are at the bottom.
More info is going up on the website all the time. Flier text in
various languages (see below) and the global press release text is
available on there. If you can't access the WWW and want something,
just contact us!
Flier text is available in Dutch, French, Norwegian, Portugese,
Russian, Spanish. These are old versions - if anyone can help
updating them then please contact us. If your language isn't here,
can you help with translation?
And always remember: RESISTANCE IS FERTILE !
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PRESS
Becky has a Global Press Release that was sent to International press
agencies. This is available on the website or from us. Feel free to
use it and modify it.
If you want your action mentioned in future press releases then
contact us.
Similarly if you want your action press-released internationally then
let press@resistanceisfertile.com know. (This won't replace your own
press work, but can supplement it).
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ACTION ROUNDUP
If you are planning or know of actions / events anywhere, please tell
us about it, so we can spread the word and inspire each other!
CANADA
Action on April First, more details hopefully in the next update.
FRANCE
Things are truly jamming in Lyon with 10 - 15 organisations
involved:
*1st of April : Mutant vegetables hit the markets of Lyon with
information on GE and week's programme. Also Carneval in the
Medieval part of Lyon, St Jean. Greenpeace Lyon stall at a
supermarket with list of GE products /other info. At PRAIRIAL, an
organic cooperative: info stalls by local groups on GE, organic
agriculture, maybe short play for kids.
*2nd of April - 7th April :Info stalls in town centre all week, also
organic / ethical consumption stall in a supermarket, organic food
stall outside the Lyon University Refectory for ge-free universities.
*8th of April: cultural centre : info stalls, debate, organic
(vegetarian) food, music, Street theatre on GMOs
Paris:
* 6-8th of April OGM, brevetabilite et faim dans le monde, a conference
about GMO: patentability and its consequences (namely against the
south)
and GMO and solving hunger in the world : are the biotech lying? Why?
http://www.ogmdangers.org, ecoropa@magic.fr
NEW ZEALAND
GE Free Bus Tour, Promote GE Free Art Exhibition, Publicise
Lack of Labelling of GM Products in NZ, Public Information and
Awareness Campaign - Educate School Children and General Public About
Genetic Engineering, Act the Fool on April First, Butterfly wings and
Roller Blades.
NETHERLANDS
- Public event to demonstrate presence of test fields in Holland.
- Public organic picnic.
RUSSIA
Anti-GE seminars for students/rural people and anti-GE article in
local newspapers publicising Monsanto testings of gm potato in the
Bryansk region. (Testings were stopped three years ago, the gm potato
seeds were distributed illegally.)
SPAIN
nothing definate yet, but something's being planned...
UK
- Funeral March for the End of the Human Race at the new Centre
for Life in Newcastle.
- Organic Picnic against farm trial in Hemel Hempstead.
- Greenpeace camapigners who pulled up GE crops in summer will
probably be in Court.
USA
UK campaigners are hoping to visit Monsanto's US headquarters to
present them with a colourful display portraying people's resistance
to GM crops, to show how truly global and diverse it is. They're
looking for contributions to the display (text, photos, cartoons,
newspaper clippings etc), so please mail it to RiF, c/o 55 Day
Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA 02130, USA or email text to
genetixsnowball@onet.co.uk.
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NATIONAL / REGIONAL CO-ORDINATORS
so far there are co-ordinators for the following regions:
AOTEAROA / NEW ZEALAND: Trudy L Burgess, GE Free NZ,
PO BOX 693 NELSON Ph 03 548 6606 Fax 03 546 5036
email: GEFREENZ@RESISTANCEisFERTILE.com
FRANCE: Etienne, 40 Rue de Malte, 75011 Paris
Phone : 0143383817, FAX : 0143383788
email :ecoropa@magic.fr
LYON: email: action_ogm@yahoo.com
SPAIN
Fernando, ECOLOGISTAS EN ACCION - SECRETARIA
C/ Marquis de Leganis, 12 - Bajo
28004 Madrid
Telifono: +34-91-5312739
Fax: +34-91-5312611
ecologistas.estatal@nodo50.org
UK: GEN, POBox 9656, London
Tel: 02083749516 seeds@gn.apc.org
US: Annie Oakley, Bioengineering Action Network
P.O. Box 11703, Eugene, Oregon 97440, (541) 302-5020
ban@tao.ca
If you want to help co-ordinate actions in your area, please contact
us! As co-ordinator you will help groups contact each other, feedback
information to us so we can put info on the internet and tell
everyone else about what is happening in different countries. Dealing
with the press in your country is also something that can be done.
If all of this sounds frightening, don' t be put off! If you feel you
can help in any of these things or even anything at all, then contact
us!
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NEXT UPDATE DUE WEEKEND 11-12 March 2000
If you are planning actions or have material or ideas which may
help others involved in the week of action, let us know by Thursday
so it can go in the update.
UPDATE DUE EACH WEEKEND. DEADLINE EACH THURSDAY
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CONTACT DETAILS
We now have a website, email addresses, telephone and fax
numbers, and a mail address. The best way of reaching us is by
email.
PLEASE CHECK FOR NATIONAL / REGIONAL CO-ORDINATORS
ABOVE TOO
http://www.RESISTANCEisFERTILE.com
GENERAL INFO:
info@RESISTANCEisFERTILE.com
Tel +44 870 122 1403 (UK: 0870 122 1403)
fax +44 870 137 4155 (UK: 0870 137 4155)
PRESS ENQUIRIES:
press@RESISTANCEisFERTILE.com
MAIL ADDRESS:
Resistance is Fertile, c/o Brambles,
82 Andover St, SHEFFIELD, S33 9E8,
UK
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